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Hi my mum is having a new kitchen fitted.
At the moment she has tiled splashbacks under the wall cupboards
and also there is a radiator wall which is tiled half way up
and wallpapered at the top.
My husband is fitting the new kitchen and he says the
radiator wall would look better without any tiles and just
painted in a paint that wipes down.
The kitchen table will also be up against this wall,
My mum is so used to tiles being on this wall
thatshe thinks it will look odd with just a painted wall.
There are no kitchen units whatsoever on the wall in question,
just the radiator and a kitchen table up it.
You do come through the back door with the wall
on your right but there's only my mum there
no children getting it mucky.
Any tilers or diy expert opinions would be
appreciated.
Also with the splash back, do you go arounf
the corner of the wall with tiles or not, ie
or just literally up to where the wall unit stops,
My mum thinks the tiles should continue
round the edge of the wall so you have a thin
strip of them there too !!!65533;!!!65533;

thanks, it wasn't so much overriding
what my mum wanted, more of what's the norm
when tiling a kitchen these days, the tiling
has been there over 30 years so maybe its
a bit dated having tiles on that wall?

Not a problem if it needs boarding he's a decorators
so he's prepared to make it good if necessary.

Im just thinking if a professional tiler had the
same kitchen, would they be tiling that wall?

I think it would look odd to tile a kitchen wall that doesn't have any units or worktop on it. IMO, fully tiled walls are for bath/shower/wet rooms only. Painting it would look much better... and it's much easier to change as tastes/fashions change. Perhaps not something your mum is bothered about but if she ever might want to sell it, it could help.

Round our corners (where the wall cupboards don't go round the corner), the tiling extends around the corner to the depth of the worktop then stops. The height of the tiles is the same around the corner - it doesn't go up the side alongside the cupboards on the back wall.

Just wanted to say thanks for the helpful replies.
Laura, good idea with the panelling, will suggest that.

To the posters who get a kick out of skitting people's post
purely because of the layout without even thinking that there
may be a reason for it, I hope you never suffer from a debilitating
condition and if you ever do, that members of a forum
would show you a level of respect that you are clearly lacking
yourselves.

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